A recording of a community meeting with county officials discussing the creation of emergency housing sites to address the encampments along the Joe Rodota Trail. This meeting, on Friday, Feb. 24 from 3 – 4:30 p.m., focused on a proposal to create an emergency housing site at the County Campus.
Although Sonoma County Board Supervisor Chris Coursey admitted he was uncomfortable with how the plan came forward to relocate the current homeless encampment occupants from the Joe Rodota Trail to the newly designated emergency homeless shelter sites, referring to the “lack of transparency,” the Board voted unanimously (5/5) in favor of adopting the proposed resolution …
The Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building is a designated emergency shelter for the temporarily homeless due to such things as natural disasters. However, this proposal recommends that the Joe Rodota Trail homeless encampment occupants be moved to the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building for use as a homeless emergency shelter because of a shelter crisis. …